ty 4 ur contribution to the discussion lol

as above, so below lol

i need to play it again. what’s your fave part? i have to say midwich elementary is mine, because it terrified me so much. i also enjoyed the hospital

enjoy! it’s such a unique experience

personally, im a huge fan of ps1 graphics so this may be unique to me and others like me. its certainly beautiful to me haha

This is a very accurate representation of the USA tbh (source: am american)

huh? astral projection real? 🤨

they keep it to themselves to remain on top. empress also accepts donations, even going so far as to refuse to crack a game unless she receives a certain amount of money like $500.

she doesn’t release info because then she won’t be needed, and therefore won’t receive money for something that many crackers can do

yes, you can. you only need to sign up for one instance, thats your “home base” and you can see everything from everywhere else from it. it’s like you can make a gmail account and still email ymail, yahoo, outlook, whatever else

yes

i cant tell if youre genuinely unaware or joking but either way its hilarious

about the defederation, this comment about it is great: https://kbin.social/m/main@sh.itjust.works/t/22433/Beehaw-defederated-us#entry-comment-90015

"I think it’s easy to take this personally but I think it’s more about the moderation tools in Lemmy not being adequate at the moment so this is the best bandaid solution for now. We need to quickly put effort into developing better moderation tools like limiting other servers without fully defederating, limiting specific communities, forcing nsfw on communities/instances, proxying reports to origin servers so admins have better feedback on their instance user’s bad behavior, and many other things if we want to prevent defederating like this from being the only option.

I think infighting about this decision and differing moderation styles instead of focusing together on moderation challenges and tooling deficiencies risks tearing the community / federation apart and is counterproductive to the goal of being better than reddit."

there will be growing pains.

Someone on my server came up with a mall analogy which I am extending upon, might be helpful:
Sites are like cities (kbin is a city, lemmy is a city, etc)
Instances are like malls (kbin.social is a mall)
Stores inside a mall are like magazines
Cities can have multiple malls, and the malls all talk to each other and give each other information about what’s happening in their mall in relation to their stores, which is why we can see posts from other instances of the same site.
And what’s more, malls (instances) in different cities (sites) can also talk to malls in another city and pass information about their malls to the other cities’ malls. Cities talk to other cities. Translation: The sites share content with each other.

another analogy: Federation in the fediverse is like a group of islands with bridges connecting them. Each island represents a different platform, and the bridges allow people to travel and interact between the islands. Even though each island has its own unique features and rules, the bridges enable communication and sharing of ideas across the entire network of islands.

I hope this didn’t further confuse you lol. my protest server has extensive explanations and one on one help with this if you’d like.